Supernatural Season 13 Episode 10 Girl power is the theme in Supernatural‘s return after the mid-season break. Combining some of the greatest recurring guest stars was a great way to show off that power. As you probably already know, “Wayward Sisters” was the backdoor pilot into the spinoff show of the same name. Thank God it wasn’t another “Bloodlines.” The episode connected the Jody Mills foster family with the likes of Sheriff Donna Hanscum and Patience Turner....

6.7 Family Matters At Samuel’s hideout, Castiel establishes that Samuel is who he says he is and has a soul. With no further leads, Castiel leaves. Samuel is preparing to go after the alpha vampire. Dean and Sam convince Samuel to allow them to help. On the hunt, Dean is left guarding the perimeter with Gwen, one of the Campbell cousins, while Sam accompanies Samuel and company to raid the house where the alpha is....

So, the rumours were all true. Not only is James Delaney an invincible cannibal warrior, he’s also a legit wizard. After three episodes of dancing around it, Taboo took a two-footed leap into the supernatural realm this week by showing Delaney rape his sleeping sister via the astral plane. Zilpha being shown to have enjoyed James “breaking in” would ordinarily be the point I’d tell a TV show to do one, but as I’m here until the bitter end, let’s get into it....

The scourge of modern television seems to have become not the remake or the spin-off or even reality television. The scourge of modern television is, in fact, the recap. It seems like every show I watch these days wastes the first few minutes of every episode recapping what happened the previous week. I get that this helps lower the entrance bar for those not totally on board from the very beginning, but these days, with streaming video and whatnot?...

4.11 A Promise To The Dead Kate brought a very interesting dynamic to Teen Wolf‘s first season that the show had trouble recapturing. She was both sexy and dangerous (remember Peter essentially seducing Lydia?), usually at the same time, and her interactions with Derek made it clear that she was nowhere near as wholesome as the rest of the gang, and might have revelled in her own weird sexual quirks in the process....

Perhaps I’m just developing a form of Stockholm Syndrome, but this week’s episode of Terra Nova was – wait for it – sort of good. For maybe the first half hour. It’s more than most have managed. Maddy has always been precocious, so her transformation into Terra Nova‘s version of Nancy Drew was believable, even if the Horton subplot was ultimately unsatisfying. It started off strong, as Maddy began to suspect something was wrong with Horton, it got only stronger as she struggled to find some evidence to support her theories – and then it fell apart when, at the final moment, Horton’s doppelganger turned into a raving cartoon villain, complete with a needlessly convoluted death-trap....

2.2 Inclement Weather Clarke’s separation from the group, for example, could have easily been about finding her way back to Finn and Bellamy, and in a way it is, but it’s also about her own immutable distrust and curiosity and a determination to get out of Mount Weather and help her friends. She’s still their leader, even if she’s trapped in a dystopian underground society and quickly losing support from Jasper and Monty....

This, I thought, was good. Advertising tasks make a nice change from the bellowing-like-a-market-trader episodes of The Apprentice. And it does seem to actually test something other than an ability to flog stuff. Be careful what you wish for, however, is a wise prophecy. Also giving a silly vox pop was Christopher, the other team leader. He was a marine, and was thus off to shoot everyone. Something like that, anyway....

Goggles And Hicks This episode kicked off in Afghanistan, introducing us to a pair of assassins, Goggles, a nerdy guy, and Hicks, a near-mute gun nut. Essentially, they fit neatly into the roles of Microchip and The Punisher, one stakes out the target and provides the weaponry, the other gets close enough to pull the trigger. And sometimes (as in this episode) they fly around a mobile targeting drone loaded with automated weaponry....

Daisy (Cate Blanchett) lies dying of old age in a New Orleans hospital. In her final hours, as Hurricane Katrina descends on the city, her daughter reads to her from the diary of one Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt), a man born under unusual circumstances. Button has already picked up BAFTAs for production design, visual effects and make-up, and deservedly so. Benjamin’s transition from wizened and infirm to muscular Adonis is remarkable....

One fact that can be totally confirmed at this point in time: Michael Keaton, the man who filled the Batsuit beautifully in Tim Burton’s two Caped Crusader flicks, will have no involvement in The Dark Knight. That makes me frown harder than New Coke and CGI Jabba the Hutt. Yeah, it’s a reboot or a retcon or whatever the trendy-ass computer-based term for a new movie based on an old property is called, but come on, guys – Michael Keaton is ace, pure gold all the way....

Fortunately, she managed to squeeze in time for this interview…Can we start with your pre-Doctor Who days: I read that you started out in childern’s theatre? Yeah, I did. Doctor Who was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children’s theatre. It was out of the back of a van, going round schools. And then eventually I worked my way up, and I was at Polka Children’s Theatre, which is a very well known and well respected children’s theate company in Wimbledon....

Bianca Piper, (played by the always excellent Mae Whitman) is a whip-smart 17-year-old who spends her spare time writing for the school paper and watching old horror movies. She’s mortified when her neighbour and childhood friend Wesley (Robbie Amell) blithely calls her a DUFF – basically an approachable access point for guys who want to have sex with her super-hot friends Jess (Skyler Samuels) and Casey (Bianca A. Santos.) Although it sounds like it’s a film based on an Urban Dictionary entry, this actually comes from a 2010 novel written by then-teenage author Kody Keplinger, which was praised at the time for taking a frank and mature approach to sex in a landscape of young adult literature that was littered with pro-abstinence Twilight descendants....

The Exorcist Season 1 Episode 4 I have been pretty hard on The Exorcist since it premiered. Okay, yes, I am an Exorcist purist, but that is not the problem I have with the series. I approached it as its own entity having little to do with the original film. This week in “Chapter Four Moveable Feast,” the series really broke the episode down into two plotlines running alongside each other....

3.8 Invasion But seriously. Who cares, right? The only way to judge an hour of TV like this one is on how it makes you feel, and in my case, to the surprise of absolutely nobody reading this, it made me feel pretty darn good. Of course, it’s tough to be objective when the show literally throws the frakkin’ Hall of Justice in my face, but again, the annual CW superhero crossover is meant to be a distraction....

3.2 Boxed In There’s a plan in place, and that plan involves a recently purchased electric chair. Apparently you can just buy those after the state executioner decommissions them, and all you need is a giant scary bald sociopath to bring it back to life. However, just because you have the chair, that doesn’t mean you get to use it. For the first time in The Following‘s career, the FBI does some actual police work and doesn’t just get to the scene of the crime a moment too late, but right on time to disrupt the plot and nearly catch the fugitive Mark and his crepe hair beard....

1.1 A Robber’s Tale The Great Train Robbery. With a name like that, it’s no wonder we enjoy retelling this story. Had the 1963 Cheddington Mail Van Raid not been rechristened with such a swashbuckling title, you can bet we wouldn’t be here now, watching the credits roll on another dramatized version of events. Or more properly, half a dramatized version. The second film in this diptych, A Copper’s Tale, airs tomorrow night and tells the same story from the other side of the thin blue line....

Written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, The Guard may well be the funniest and most intelligent deconstruction of the buddy cop thriller yet made. In case you didn’t already know, John Michael McDonagh is the brother of Martin McDonagh, the writer and director of the fantastic In Bruges, which should give you an indication of the kind of humour you can expect to find in The Guard. Then, Boyle’s normal routine is shaken up by the kind of gangland murder more commonly seen in an American city than a quiet Irish coastal community....

Every day my letter box is stuffed with offers of cheap laptops, computers, MP3s, extra storage, mobile phones that do practically everything but gestate and computer games. I know I should be interested but as I don’t understand how the advertised items are going to make the world a better place or enhance my life, I simply dump everything into the environmentally friendly waste bin. Although I have never really understood the way a computer functions I must admit to finding the word processor a great help....

My initial interest was sparked by being asked to write a treatment for a film entitled Westward Ho! based on the 19th century novel by Charles Kingsley. It starts off in Devon, takes a trip to the Caribbean and is back in Bideford for the Spanish Armada. All in the name of love. The leading character, Amyas Leigh, like most of the hot blooded males of Bideford, is in love with the gorgeous Rose Salterne....